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I'm a book magnet!
I arrived in NZ with a couple of travel guides. Somehow, the Wellington City Library was having a sale when I arrived. I left the country with over twenty books - including the very sad, yet extraordinarily well researched,Victims of Memory. Personally, I find it very sad that MPD/DID therapists could engage in such behaviour in the first instance. I suppose there was a lot of money to be made - and the wages of sin are very high indeed.
A brief PS2 review (ROTK), a programming task, and writings.
In a sort of mental preparation for the writing tasks I've set myself this year, I spent the better part of two days playing the latest gee-whiz PS 2 game, the Return of the King. Oh, what a disappointment. The worst of hack-n-slash linear narrative. The game is surprisingly short and any length is only because some levels are annoyingly difficult by sheer wait of numbers. Merry and Pippin don't even get airtime. This is lazy game design. Back in the good old days when memory was short and one couldn't pad out a session with movie clips and clever rendering they had a thing called game play and complexity. Check out Sword of Aragon if you doubt me. Now there's a real computer game.
I have started - with the good and very hardworking Peter Gossner - a Tetum-Bahasa-Portuguese-English programming engine. This is going to be really difficult - three different language families and Portuguese grammar is a pain, as anyone would know who has studied it. Nonetheless feel free to chip in with any bright ideas.
Because I'm plain silly I've set myself 3000 words/day on "useful" material whether it is the final dregs of my thesis, journal articles, books, transcribing old essays, study notes or coding . Today I made that target with relative ease - one old essay transcribed on the form and content of magic (heh, designed for RPGs but with too much philosophy of science and sociology, a narrative version of my computing experience (seeming that employers don't understand the resume version), the aforementioned preliminary program notes. I have also received confirmation to write an article for New Politics on (surprise, surprise) Dr. Jim Cairns. How about that?
Tonight I'll finish the work for connect.ie, the Sesami website. On other work related notes, far too much of my time today was spent filling out that ridiculous "job seeker diary" (which they don't check anyway but I have this sometimes ridiculous commitment to honesty). I'm trying not be cranky about it all, but seriously people we're not supposed to be living in tough economic times - things are supposed to get better, right?
A brief PS2 review (ROTK), a programming task, and writings.
In a sort of mental preparation for the writing tasks I've set myself this year, I spent the better part of two days playing the latest gee-whiz PS 2 game, the Return of the King. Oh, what a disappointment. The worst of hack-n-slash linear narrative. The game is surprisingly short and any length is only because some levels are annoyingly difficult by sheer wait of numbers. Merry and Pippin don't even get airtime. This is lazy game design. Back in the good old days when memory was short and one couldn't pad out a session with movie clips and clever rendering they had a thing called game play and complexity. Check out Sword of Aragon if you doubt me. Now there's a real computer game.
I have started - with the good and very hardworking Peter Gossner - a Tetum-Bahasa-Portuguese-English programming engine. This is going to be really difficult - three different language families and Portuguese grammar is a pain, as anyone would know who has studied it. Nonetheless feel free to chip in with any bright ideas.
Because I'm plain silly I've set myself 3000 words/day on "useful" material whether it is the final dregs of my thesis, journal articles, books, transcribing old essays, study notes or coding . Today I made that target with relative ease - one old essay transcribed on the form and content of magic (heh, designed for RPGs but with too much philosophy of science and sociology, a narrative version of my computing experience (seeming that employers don't understand the resume version), the aforementioned preliminary program notes. I have also received confirmation to write an article for New Politics on (surprise, surprise) Dr. Jim Cairns. How about that?
Tonight I'll finish the work for connect.ie, the Sesami website. On other work related notes, far too much of my time today was spent filling out that ridiculous "job seeker diary" (which they don't check anyway but I have this sometimes ridiculous commitment to honesty). I'm trying not be cranky about it all, but seriously people we're not supposed to be living in tough economic times - things are supposed to get better, right?
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Since when have you picked up Tetum and Portuguese? ;-)
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